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Here's some I know:

• A Ducks quack echoes
• every hour of every day, gamblers lose $696,000 in Las Vegas casinos
• south africa fad: some boys in cape town have their upper teeth extracted to look cool
• at last count, the U.S. had 612,020 fast food cooks and only 393,730 farm workers
• sean connery and lionel richie both keep their oscars in the bathroom
• a heated jawbreaker can explode when bitten into
• studies show that covering a wart with duct tape is more effective than having a doctor remove it
• your more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket then you winning the lottery
• a glass bottle can take as long as 4,000 years to decompose
• in 2009 a 10-year-old british girl placed her grandmother for sale on eBay for 99 cents
• oxford dictionary's 2009 word of the year:''unfriend''to take someone off your facebook friends list
• a study by the a U.S. research firm found that 40% of twitter messages are ''pointless babble''
• in 2008 south africa passed a law making it illegal for kids under the age of 16 to kiss
• a women in france married her boyfriend in 2009. what so weird about that? he died in 2008
• meatcards.com sells laser-etched business cards printed on beef jerky it's cost 7.50 per card
• matthew McConaughey is afraid of revolving doors
• international space station astronauts change their underwear only twice a week.eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!
• about 15,000 americans are in a coma right now
• anton-babinski syndrome is a rare condition in which a blind person doesn't realize they blind
biggest complaint of office workers:the office is too cold. second biggest: the office is too hot

• 75% of all men's under wear is purchased by women
• studies show that 80% of adult laughter is unconnected to any joke or funny situation.no joke
• guys need to read the following:53% of women would dump their boyfriend if they didn't get a valentine's day gift.
• $700 worth of transactions are made on eBay every second
• about 1 in 6 pregnant women get a craving to chew on coal
• worldwide,the average kid receives $32 worth of toys per year.the average american kid $328
• in 1995a san diego man sued the city for $5.2 million for ''emotional trauma'' after he saw a woman using the man's restroom at an Elton john concert
• americans use five times more paper for wiping body parts than for writing
• there a bird called butwink
• it's a crime to step on money in thailand
• scorpions can survive being frozen solid for as long as 3 weeks

I looked up a butwink bird.

They don't exist.

Did you know that bubble gum is pink only because back in the 1920's, the inventor could only find pink dye, and thus the color stuck?

It's a pretty weird fact.

Mount Everest isn't the tallest mountain in the world. In fact, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain.
Links: http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/10-false-facts.htm#page=1

Watermelons are a type of berry

Source: Fruit Ninja

tomatoes aren't fruits or veggies, they're herbs.

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Who doesnt know this?

I know right! Ok here's some of mine (some are very relative to death :3)
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. (Copy paste)
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times per minute on average.
Lots of Americans believe the Sun rotates around the Earth

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101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. (Copy paste)

Obviously, don't those people know about Sleeping Beauty? But in all seriousness, a dead or missing parent is a very common cliche in Disney.

Glass is actually a liquid. Boom. You can tell because old windows are thin at the top and fatter at the bottom.
Source; High school maths teacher.

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The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

Wrong. There are many more powerful muscles in the body, like the jaw and the glutes.

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Glass is actually a liquid. Boom. You can tell because old windows are thin at the top and fatter at the bottom.
Source; High school maths teacher.

No, that is due to the fact that old glass making techniques were very crude and did not make glass as well as we do. If that were true, then glass made by the Egyptians would be linearly deformed compared to Roman glass and we definitely do not see that. Meaning, Egyptian glass panes should look like a flat raindrop.

Chickens can be born half male half female

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Cucumbers are fruits.

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tomatoes aren't fruits or veggies, they're herbs.

Let's clear up some of this edible plant stuff. An herb, by definition, is "Any plant with leaves, seeds, or flowers used for flavoring, food, medicine, or perfume." This definition does not exclude fruits or vegetables, of which a tomato is both, botanically a fruit and culinarily a vegetable. Same thing with cucumbers. Botanically, a fruit, culinarily, a vegetable.

Ok I looked it up, and there is actually no scientific consensus on wether glass is solid or liquid. I understand that glass doesn't run down, but apparently it has no melting point, instead it changes to some kind of other substance. Idk it's confusing, I'll just believe that it's a solid.

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Glass is actually a liquid. Boom. You can tell because old windows are thin at the top and fatter at the bottom.
Source; High school maths teacher.

Wrong.
Glass is actually an amphorous solid.
Liquid needs to be able to change its shape and flow, and the latter glass cannot do. Glass doesn't flow.
Glass is not a supercooled liquid. A "supercooled" liquid is still a liquid that can turn crystalline almost instantly when disturbed as when distilled water is careful chilled to 28-29F and a bit of ice or sand dropped in. And it contains silicon dioxide or tetroxide. Silicon doesn't melt unless placed at temperatures at more than 1400 Celsius.
Also, people in the olden days used the "crown method", which unevenly made parts of the glass thinner or fatter.
Therefore, your fact is invalid.
How this is true-
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/10-false-facts.htm#page=4
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-fiction-glass-liquid
And I asked the same question to my Chemistry teacher days ago.
Also to answer Blair.

Surprising fact:
Deoxygenated blood is RED, not blue. The trick of light easily makes the naked eye think its blue, when actually its dark red- poor blood that's going to the heart.

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Wrong.
Glass is actually an amphorous solid.
Liquid needs to be able to change its shape and flow, and the latter glass cannot do. Glass doesn't flow.
Glass is not a supercooled liquid. A "supercooled" liquid is still a liquid that can turn crystalline almost instantly when disturbed as when distilled water is careful chilled to 28-29F and a bit of ice or sand dropped in. And it contains silicon dioxide or tetroxide. Silicon doesn't melt unless placed at temperatures at more than 1400 Celsius.
Also, people in the olden days used the "crown method", which unevenly made parts of the glass thinner or fatter.
Therefore, your fact is invalid.
How this is true- http://images.google...7ZUv4&mvs=0#p=1

http://science.howst...acts.htm#page=4
http://www.scientifi...on-glass-liquid
And I asked the same question to my Chemistry teacher days ago.
Also to answer Blair.

Surprising fact:
Deoxygenated blood is RED, not blue. The trick of light easily makes the naked eye think its blue, when actually its dark red- poor blood that's going to the heart.

Didn't you read my next post? Amorphous solid I'd what I meant in that instead of "some other substance".
Also some more facts (they're true):
In Vermont it is illegal to tie your giraffe to a street post.
There is a type of jellyfish which never dies, as once it reaches maturity it can revert back to its polyp state (crazy I know!)
France has the best military record of any country.
Napoleon was actually average height for his time period
Oranges are actually green on the outside
Bats aren't blind
And lastly the longest word is the IUPAC name of the protein Titin with 189,819 letters.

Btw thanks for all you guys informing me I was wrong, not the first time my maths teacher has been wrong :).

The chicken thing is true, as their brain has a larger area dedicated to sight.

And that Hitler was voted man of the year by Time Magazine in 1938.

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Please elaborate.

I meant they had the best in Europe, sorry. This s because:
There have n 53 major wars fought in Europe, with france fighting in 49 of them, more than any other country in Europe.
They have also won 132 battles, lost 43 and drawn 10 times, a better record than any European country. This is against stereotypes about a weak French military that arose from both world wars.

Another Fact:
About 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States.
Its true.

-A man in South Korea died. He played too much Starcraft.

-Nail polish is the same as car paint

-There is a snail species called Ba humbugii.

-The once most widespread bird, the Passenger Pigeon, is now extinct (*BEEP* you poachers who have been long dead)